Special
guest, Freedom
Summer volunteer, one of those featured in the film: Linda
Wetmore Halpern. In
1964, 700 students, the majority of them white, traveled to
Mississippi to join with Black activists in the South to register African Americans to vote. They courageously
braved intimidation, arrests, death threats, and beatings. Three
young people, Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney –
went missing and were later found murdered.